Mao believed that a Soviet style government was doomed to fail and return to capitalism.

What was different between USSR and China? After all, both eventually began allowing some free market ideas. --Ed PoorTalk 19:12, 4 January 2010 (EST)

to do that they repudiated Leninism and Maoism. Russia is no longer run by Reds, but by thugs. In China the Reds (the grandchildren of the Maoists) have become capitalists while keeping control of the party that controls the govt, the schools and the army.RJJensen 21:49, 4 January 2010 (EST)